Interview with Curtis Smith about working for the Union Pacific Railroad with his father in the Fairfax area of Kansas City, Kansas, and getting to know African American coworkers who lived in the Quindaro area. He discusses segregation and the economic decline in the area, and recalls the men he says were the first African American employees at the railroad company, and mentioned Geraldine Gray, who he says was an early African American woman in the company, and discusses the racial and sex-based discrimination she and the men faced. He also discusses his railroad work and employee culture at the Quindaro yard office, and later becoming an instructor at Kansas City Kansas Community College, coordinating the Wyandotte County Ethnic Festival, and taking students to tour the Quindaro town site, and discusses area Civil War-era history.